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In Vitro Fertilization: Building Policy from Laboratories to Legislatures
Andrea L. Bonnicksen
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Paperback. Examines 2 different and often opposing worlds of in vitro fertilization: the public's political, legal and ethical concerns surrounding the technique, and the personal, pragmatic world of the individual patients who come to the centers seeding a cure for infertility. This book provides a objective analysis which answers many perplexing questions. Num Pages: 194 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: MFKC1; PS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 158 x 13. Weight in Grams: 363.
Few recent technologies have attracted as much attention as In Vitro Fertilization (IVF), a technique in which ova are fertilized in a glass dish and transferred to the prospective mother. Despite a large body of literature and much recent publicity on the ethics of new re-productive technologies, however, we are far from understanding what actually goes on in the nation's 138 in vitro fertilization centers, and even farther from possessing a clear public policy regarding this controversial technology. In this book the author examines two different, and often opposing worlds of in vitro fertilization: the public's political, legal and ethical ... Read more
Few recent technologies have attracted as much attention as In Vitro Fertilization (IVF), a technique in which ova are fertilized in a glass dish and transferred to the prospective mother. Despite a large body of literature and much recent publicity on the ethics of new re-productive technologies, however, we are far from understanding what actually goes on in the nation's 138 in vitro fertilization centers, and even farther from possessing a clear public policy regarding this controversial technology. In this book the author examines two different, and often opposing worlds of in vitro fertilization: the public's political, legal and ethical ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
194
Condition
New
Number of Pages
194
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231069052
SKU
V9780231069052
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About Andrea L. Bonnicksen
Andrea Bonnicksen is professor of political science at Eastern Illinois University.
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